Isaias 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Decem enim jugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam, et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὗ γὰρ ἐργῶνται δέκα ζεύγη βοῶν, ποιήσει κεράμιον ἕν, καὶ ὁ σπείρων ἀρτάβας ἕξ ποιήσει μέτρα τρία.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Measure. Hebrew, "both."
Thirty. Hebrew, "a chomer shall yield an epha."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
17. Only let us recognise the purpose of the evil. Why have the crops withered, our storehouses been emptied, the pastures of our flocks failed, the fruits of the earth been withheld, and the plains been filled with shame instead of with fatness: why have valleys lamented and not abounded in corn, the mountains not dropped sweetness, as they shall do hereafter to the righteous, but been stript and dishonoured, and received on the contrary the curse of Gilboa? The whole earth has become as it was in the beginning, before it was adorned with its beauties. Thou visitedst the earth, and madest it to drink, but the visitation has been for evil, and the draught destructive. …